Faster trade sharing with the world´s first mobile share trading service

Soon it will be possible to trade in shares with your mobile telephone. The new service, based on WAP technology, is the result of a collaboration between Europolitan, Aspiro and Aktiedirekt, and will be launched as soon as there are WAP telephones on the market.

The new service is a mobile version of the on-line share trading service Aktiedirekt, and enables real-time share trading via a mobile telephone. "The potential of electronic commerce over mobile telephones is huge," says Jonas Sundsvall of Aktiedirekt. "The number of users of the on-line share trading service in Sweden has gone from zero to 140,000 since 1996, of a total of 4.8 million Swedish shareholders. Globally there are now 5 million users of on-line share trading services." There are already more mobile telephone users in Sweden than there are Internet users, so the potential impact of e-commerce via mobile telephones is huge. And this newly launched service is the first step in this direction. "This service makes e-commerce via the Internet mobile," says Michael Kluge, Marketing Director at Europolitan. "So the mobile telephone, which you can take with you anywhere you go, will be an important tool when e-commerce really gets up and running."i All you need to use this new service is a Europolitan subscription and a WAP telephone. WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol, and is a new technology enabling the transfer of services and information from the Internet to a mobile telephone. It is expected that the first WAP telephone will be launched before the summer. The telecom company Aspiro developed the software, Europolitan performed the integration in the mobile telephony network and Aktiedirekt added the content. Europolitan AB is a Swedish GSM operator, which prioritises service and quality. The company´s head office is in Karlskrona and it leads development in technologically advanced services for GSM900/1800. The Europolitan Group, which includes the sister company Europolitan Stores AB and the stock market-listed Europolitan Holdings AB, employs around 800 people Aktiedirekt is a subsidiary of Nordiska Fondkommission AB, which is listed on the O list of the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Aktiedirekt is one of Sweden´s leading players in on-line trading in financial instruments. The company has launched many new services on the Swedish on-line market, including trading in North American shares in 1998. Aspiro is a telecom company, which develops and markets business and information services to companies in the Nordic market. Aspiro currently has 15 employees and offices in Malmö, Karlskrona and Oslo. For more information please contact: Mikael Kluge, Marketing Manager, Europolitan AB telephone: 0708-33 12 05 E-mail: mikael.kluge@europolitan.se Jonas Sundvall, Manager, Aktiedirekt, telephone: 08-791 24 10 E-mail: jonas.sundvall@aktiedirekt.com Christer Månsson, President, Aspiro, telephone: 0709-91 80 01 E-mail: christer.mansson@aspiro.com